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RIP Richard Attenborough

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  • #2
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Also, in before anyone makes quips about cloning him Jurassic Park style! ;)


  • #3
    _Redzer_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,056 ✭✭✭_Redzer_


    Read that as David Attenborough!

    Jesus, you frightened the living ****e out of me!!


  • #4
    House of Blaze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 627 ✭✭✭House of Blaze


    Jesus christ for a second there I thought you meant David...


  • #5
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Links234 wrote: »
    http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-28923074

    :(

    Haven't even clicked the link, but devastated at this news.

    He made any documentary interesting. I'll always remember him for his document on primates, and how he captured chimpanzees actually hunting and devouring live monkeys.

    True legend.

    May he RIP.

    Edit.

    Oops.

    Richard was a nice bloke too. Rip.


  • #6
    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    _Redzer_ wrote: »
    Read that as David Attenborough!

    Jesus, you frightened the living ****e out of me!!


    Thought it was David too until I read your post


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  • #7
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    He was brilliant in Brighton Rock, prob be best remembered for Jurassic Park and directing Ghandi.

    Didn't realise he was 90.


  • #8
    Shakespeare's Sister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,412 ✭✭✭Shakespeare's Sister


    Banjo String wrote: »
    Haven't even clicked the link, but devastated at this news.

    He made any documentary interesting. I'll always remember him for his document on primates, and how he captured chimpanzees actually hunting and devouring live monkeys.

    True legend.

    May he RIP.
    Not him, his bro. :)


  • #9
    Talib Fiasco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,428 ✭✭✭Talib Fiasco


    RIP but my f*ck I thought it was David for a split second...jees the world wouldn't cope if him and Robin Williams left us in one month


  • #10
    Frank Lee Midere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,780 ✭✭✭Frank Lee Midere


    90 good innings.

    RIP


  • #11
    Toots
    Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 17,009 Mod ✭✭✭✭Toots


    Awww!! Santa....


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  • #12
    _Redzer_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,056 ✭✭✭_Redzer_


    I have to laugh. Everyone initially thinks it's David, panics, and then gets relieved when it's only Richard :P


  • #13
    CarrickMcJoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,379 ✭✭✭CarrickMcJoe


    So sad, I loved his nature programmes.


  • #14
    House of Blaze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 627 ✭✭✭House of Blaze


    RIP to Richard but in fairness I will probably ball like a little girl when David does eventually go...


  • #15
    DrGreenthumb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 720 ✭✭✭DrGreenthumb


    That guy was a dick anyhow tried to get me into his park, told me it was jurassic


  • #16
    Trebor176
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,444 ✭✭✭Trebor176


    I told my Dad this, and he thought I meant David as well. Anyway, it's sad news to learn of Richard's passing. Another legend gone.


  • #17
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

    Richard Attenborough

    RIP


  • #18
    Duff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,599 ✭✭✭Duff


    Always wanted his mosquito walking stick from Jurassic Park when I was a sprog.

    RIP.


  • #19
    P_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    A very talented man and, by all accounts, a gentleman.

    Sadly after posting such an impressive innings this news was probably not all that shocking.

    May he rest in peace.


  • #20
    frostypants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 209 ✭✭frostypants


    My heart literally jumped as I thought it was David. I can see when that day comes I will definitely not take it well.

    RIP Richard


  • #21
    _Redzer_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,056 ✭✭✭_Redzer_


    I've never been sad when a big famous person has died, but this thread has made me realise I will be really upset when David dies :(


    Sorry, Richard! :p


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  • #22
    lertsnim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,101 ✭✭✭✭lertsnim


    Shakespeare's Sister wrote: »
    I think everyone thought for a split second it was David. :)

    Not everyone.


  • #23
    daviecronin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 447 ✭✭daviecronin


    R.I.P Richard such a unique voice :)


  • #24
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    _Redzer_ wrote: »
    I've never been sad when a big famous person has died, but this thread has made me realise I will be really upset when David dies :(


    Sorry, Richard! :p

    It's made me realise that David is only two years younger than Richard. :( For some reason, I thought he was much younger than that.


  • #25
    ardle1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭ardle1


    Phewwwww, had a sweat there....... I thought you meant Richard Branson!


  • #26
    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    One of my favs



  • #27
    losthorizon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭losthorizon


    Brilliant in Brighton Rock (its a great Book as well)

    He also has a very small part in one of my favourite films A Matter of Life and Death

    and appears in The Great Escape.

    Brighton Rock though was the part he will be remembered for. Pinkie was so evil


  • #28
    Lucas Castroman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 241 ✭✭Lucas Castroman


    ardle1 wrote: »
    Phewwwww, had a sweat there....... I thought you meant Richard Branson!

    It just makes me realise how much i'll miss Richard Branson when he does pop his clogs. Cherish him we must.


  • #29
    Spring Onion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,087 ✭✭✭Spring Onion


    Met him once in London. He was very warm and friendly. RIP.


  • #30
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Good actor, very bloody good director who was brilliant with actors and at the same time knew where to point the camera, a rare gift, bit of a luvvie by all accounts, but in a very very nice way. Married to the same woman since world war 2 and when she sadly declined into dementia and was moved into a specialised home to help with her care, he promptly sold up their gaff and moved into the same home to be with her(a home they helped set up IIRC?). A nice man and a gentleman. Class act all the way to the end. RIP oul son.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



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  • #31
    Norma_Desmond
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 249 ✭✭Norma_Desmond


    It's so weird, I just finished watching Chaplin and come on here to read that he has passed away.
    RIP Richard.


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